We were peddling up Wallingford Ave the other day, dragging our tow of delicious Essential Bakery dumpster-diver bread when we noticed this beauty towering over the sidewalk. The beauty we're referring to is the the piece of art, not the artist, Marvin Oliver, standing next to it (who's not bad-looking, mind you, but not as stunning as his work). The piece is suggestive of an oil drill, perhaps, pulling power and myth from the earth. The images on the side, we…
Hey, who's that standing next to Mayor Mike McGinn? Why, it's Helen Ippolito of Wallingford's Hamilton School. Along with Page Robinson of Hamilton, she was one of the winners of the City's Neighbor Appreciation Day Art Contest. As one of the top two winners, Helen's art will be featured on greeting cards distributed at libraries and community centers around the city. Nice. Oh, and that's Councilmember O'Brien on the other side of her. His art appears nowhere that we're aware of.
This coming Wednesday Lucid Jazz Club in the U-dist is hosting a silent art auction to benefit relief efforts in Haiti. The owner of Lucid, David Pierre-Louis, after traveling to Haiti to help his family, is spearheading a grassroots relief effort based right here in our backyard. They are currently raising funds and also looking for several hundred tents. This is a perfect opportunity to make a difference in a direct way. Get behind this neighbor of ours and lets help…
Now this is the kind of thing we love to see in Wallingford: more public art. We just received a call for proposals from artists for a mural to appear on the bridge between Fremont and Wallingford on N. 46th Street. Here are the details: CALL TO ARTISTS- 46TH ST. MURAL PROJECT: A mural to bridge the Fremont and Wallingford communities in Seattle, to bring a positive visual message to pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists traveling under Highway 99 (Aurora Ave.) at…
Oasis Art Gallery is celebrating their fifth year in Wallingford with an anniversary party & artists' exhibition on Sunday, January 24th from 3-6pm. Everyone is invited! The event will include food and refreshments, several classical music sets by violinist/featured artist Sharon Wherland, the opening of the 'Allure' exhibition, and a chance to meet featured artists. And, due to the crisis in Haiti, 25% of photography sales will be donated to the American Red Cross: Haiti Relief Fund. Here's a sneak peek of the exhibit: Contemporary abstract…
Hot on the heels of the request for auction donations for the Meridian School, Jacqui writes: Adams Elementary is one of Wallingford’s SISD cluster schools, and the only public elementary in the Northwest to feature complete arts integration in its curriculum. The arts curriculum is funded by the PTA, which in turn is largely funded by our annual auction: Adams Elementary School Students Reach for the Stars – and the Paintbrush Music fills the art-adorned halls long before the first bell…
It's an open secret that the art produced by many "masters" is not entirely of their own hand. Michelangelo, Da Vinci, even Chihuly, all had teams of apprentices rendering some of the laborious details of their work. I'll do them one better: I had a team of 60,000 help me with my sculptures. 60,000 bees, that is. As regular readers know, I keep two hives of bees in my back yard. As you may not know, I've been experimenting with placing…